>> this is al jazeera. >> from al jazeera's headquarters in doha. this is the news hour. i'm mary ann lamazi. confronting i.s.i.l. strategy. one small step towards closing g guantanamo bay. typhoon hagupit knocks out electricity and topples trees.

plus. how huge quantities of virgin rain forest are being harvested illegally. >> we begin this news hour in iraq where sunni leaders are accusing iraqi army pushing out sunni leaders in fraifer of favf i.s.i.l. he believes the rise of i.s.i.l. is partly the fault of u.s. policy. >> translator: we have always said that the main problem is the occupation. the u.s. and all other countries supporting the aggression on iraq are to be blamed on the results and the consequences of this occupation. every sectarian cleansing change and systematic changing. >> shia fighters have been

helping the iraqi army against i.s.i.l. but they've also been accused of targeting sunnis. the situation in iraq is further complicated by a history of distrust. sunnies felt marginalized by nuefleernouri al-maliki. iran's confirmation that it has carried out attacks against i.s.i.l. on iraqi soil has set to further alienate sunnis. more from jane a arraf in baghd. this will be the first commemoration of anea since

i.s.i.l. seized large parts of the country. the ceremony marking the 40th day of mourning, is central to shia identity. shias and shia commemorations have been i.s.i.l.'s biggest target. the iraqi government is doing everything it can to protect those making the journey. >> translator: there is a clear cut, i saw the district's commander officers and soldiers deployed along the road leading to car karbala. >> reporter: iran has even launched air strikes in iraq. after initial denials, the iranian government has acknowledged they launched the attack. so sensitive the iraqi minister of defense continues to deny their involvement. >> if they are supporting this,

there are beneficial effects. iran has clear security interests, protection of its borders, protection of the people. i.s.i.l. is not simply challenging to iraq but to iran as well. if there is involvement in the air the way there's clear involvement of the iranian revolutionary guards corps on the ground. >> in karbala, some sunni officials say they believe iran and pro-iranian iraqi forces are using the battle as an excuse to move out large numbers of sunnis. >> the central government in baghdad is totally silence. we fear of a foreign regional agenda to change diala. no positive steps have taken place on the ground. >> iraqi officials say when people have been ordered from their homes after military operations, it's because security forces need sometime to

clear the area of explosives. iran and shia militias have always played a controversial role in iraq. iraqi officials make clear that with weakened iraqi security forces they couldn't take on i.s.i.l. or secure baghdad without them. it's left the iraqi government treading a fine line between relying on iran for help and maintaining its independence. jane arraf, al jazeera, baghdad. let's take a look at islamic state of iraq and the levant. kurdish peshmerga forces, as dominic kane explains, could mark a turning point in the conflict. >> peshmerga fighters in the hills, from these position they can look down on the village that is controlled by sie i.s.i.

more than 40,000 people have left to escape the violence. now the peshmerga want to take it back. their plan is based on a combination of air strikes and grund attacks. on friday -- ground attacks. on friday dozens were killed in bombing raids. on saturday, coalition forces came back and carried out a second operation. >> translator: the recent coalition raids were very effective. more than 40 i.s.i.l. fighters were killed. the raids forced i.s.i.l. to leave more than 17 of their locations on the mountain we control better now. we are ready to storm the village when we get the order to do so. >> bashika's position, peshmerga believe that if they can take control of the villages they will be much nearer to mosul. equally, they believe that reason will make i.s.i.l. fighters do whatever they can to

retain the village. >> translator: bashika is one of the most important keys to mowlsd. it imosul. it is one of the city's suburbs. according to the information we have hundreds of ieds have been left in the village. >> bashika's population was once diverse but not since i.s.i.l. occupation. the attacks hope to end that. dominic kane, al jazeera. syrian association of human reserve, killing at least 68 fighters, kim vanel reports. >> reporter: this the syrian regime says is the aftermath of victory. fighters said to be from islamic state of iraq and the levant a roll call of the dead. written in french they list

multiple national ats. national. the regime is still in control at least here. only parts of the province still in regime hands. i.s.i.l. is keen to show it's still in control here. and just hours before the air base attack released this footage. the bodies of syrian soldiers put on display. >> translator: today after islamic state made an advance into these areas, we came here, we only lost two martyrs only two and we are thankful to god. >> darazor is the link between two strong holds, fallujah in iraq and kobani in syria. regime forces responded with air

raids but i.s.i.l. continued its assault. the u.s. coalition is being drawn in two with more air strikes every week. i.s.i.l.'s takeover has forced thousands to flee the province, what little is left will remain a battle ground. kim vanel, al jazeera. >> six guantanamo bay prisoners have arrived in uruguay. andy gallagher is live for us from miami and what is the significance of this release? >> reporter: well, miriam, it's the largest release from guantanamo bay in the western hemisphere since the base opened in 2002. we know from colleagues in south america that these six men have arrived in the capital,

montevideo. basically said guantanamo bay is an unjust place and he's helping out his friend barack obama who basically inherited a problem from the bush administration. it is a good example how hard it's been to place these people since 2002 or since in recent years when people have been released. so 19 released so far this year, 136 remain in guantanamo bay and it may be some time before we see that base closed for good. >> so the base not expected to close any time soon, then? >> well, i think this is a good example of just how difficult it is for the u.s. government to place these detainees. apparently, we're told by officials that the paperwork to release them has been cleared for some years. it's just taken officials this long to find a host country to take them in. so that is a good example of just the problem they're facing,

136 detainees remain inside guantanamo bay. 19 reeseed so far this year but i think it will be months or even years before we see guantanamo bay closed for good. >> andy gallagher in miami thanks. much more to come for you here on the al jazeera news hour. the taps that have run dry in maldives. , plus royalty to revolution and now art. we will show you the change role of russia's hermitage museum. and in sports why it's not just tiger woods golf game breaking down. down. 135 people have been arrested in saudi arabia on what the interior ministry calls terror charges. 109 are saudis, 26 are

foreigners from syrian yemen and egypt. >> arrested in different parts of the kingdom, training on weapons and terrorist acts and returning home to carry out acts to destabilize security. 54 detainees were arrested in different part of the kingdom. what has been proven to the authorities their association with extremist organizations and their roles in various forms of support to those organizations including funding, recruitment, dissemination of misguided propaganda, provocative clips harboring the wanted and manufacturing explosives and others. typhoon hagupit is known locally as ruby has knocked out power in the region. two people have been killed, nearly 900,000 have moved into shelters. as scott heidler now reports,

some people are worried about the damage they'll find once the storm passes. >> this is edison, napping next to the radio, his family listening for news of typhoon hagupit. mostly women and children they came from villages near the provincial capital. >> three families from my coastal village came to this shelter. it's noisy and we always evacuate for typhoons because our house may be blown away. >> thousands evacuate to shelters like this. with a typhoon like this the governor here says it's all about preparation and that's something he knows very well. and because of that he's confident his province will have zero casualties. >> we've been preparing for this for the past 20 years. because over the past 20 years this province has received zero

casualties in 18 of the 20 years and every year we have five typhoons. so we have made it a religion essentially. >> but the governor is worried about the economic impact of the province, because of the slow moving nature of the storm. these winds will stay longer ripping down electricity lines, destroying property. the panda bakery is the only shop open. to the owner it was a risk worth taking. >> we're afrai taking. >> we're afraid of the typhoon but we have to continue working so we can earn something. we heard reports that it would be as bad as haiyan so we put rocks on our roof. >> even if the governor is confident, no one will know the damage to the community caused by typhoon hagupit until the sun rises tomorrow morning.

scott heidler, al jazeera. andrew thomas sent us this report from a food distribution center in manila. >> they make 10,000 packages of food eighth here every year. you're helping to organize this efforts, there is a lot of system after typhoon haiyan, yolanda, last year. are you improving the system this time around? >> we have already improved our system, especially in the depositing of food aid. sufficient family food box and position it in the different towns, provinces so that there will they will be readily able and capable to provide relief assistance to the possible victims of the typhoon. >> so we're right here by

manila's airport but this is only one of many centers this time around. it's not decentralized here sit? >> we have two major production hubs, one is this center and we also have a major production center in sebu who is responding to the needs of the nearby regions, regions 5, 6, 7 and 8, and aside from that the nearby regions which will not be affected by typhoon are also prepared to augment, just in case this region that will be affected by typhoon would need augmentation, with describ distn of family food. >> with the storm moving so slowly across the country how are you going to get food aid in? flights canned get in and this storm is sitting in areas for long periods of time. how are people going to get this? >> as i mentioned earlier, our

field officers especially in the luzon area have already positioned their family food box and they have sufficient stock to answer the needs of the family that will be affected and aside from that we are ready to augment the needs. >> how? how? >> by producing more food baskets. we have over 54,000 family food boxes prepared and we are targeting to produce around 140,000 within the next 24 hours. >> deposed president mohamed morsi trial has been postponed until december 14th. on saturdays the defense argued that morsi should be settle free because he was held in an illegal detention facility. the british embassy in cairo has suspended all public services because of public

safety concerns. conconsulate in alexandria would remain as normal. al jazeera continues to demand the release of our three journalists who have been held in egypt for 345 days in prison. peter greste, mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed, appealing against their convictions. israel has opened eight investigations into the killing of palestinian civilians during attacks ton gaz onto gaza strip. most the victims were children. human rights groups have accused israel of deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure. >> reporter: the israeli government says it doesn't trust the u.n. human rights council. that organization is investigating possible war crimes committed by israeli

soldiers during the latest assault on the gaza strip. but israel argues the u.n. body is biased against it so it's conducting its own investigation. the israeli army says it's ordered eight more investigations into the possible conduct of its soldiers. this include a single air strike in han unis, of a man carrying a white flag. and an air strike that killed an ambulance driver. four cases in which israeli soldiers are accused of looting. but many palestinians in gaza say the last thing they're waiting for is an operation that killed over 2,000 people and severely destroyed infrastructure. >> translator: i don't know what to say. they send the army to kill and then they want to investigate? it's all a lie. the world believes them.

let them do what they want. we don't want to hear about it. >> translator: it doesn't mean anything to us. they killed our children, our brothers and sons and right now they're opening an investigation. it's pointless. >> reporter: another five cases have been under criminal investigation since september. they include an air strike on a u.n. school that was used as a shelter that killed 14 people and an air strike that killed four children playing on a gaza beach. >> the current investigative apparatus employed by the military cannot look at the political echelons. it is out of the scope of the investigations. the military has a dual role. he approved many of these policies and now he's expected to look at whether they were legal or not. it's absurd. >> human rights groups in israel says the army's investigations cannot possibly be impartial. the army dismissed several other

charges on the grounds that the army's actions did not amount to serious criminal grounds. cases of operational misconduct before the results of an international probe are announced. there have been several investigations of the israeli army's conduct but it has never been found guilty of war crimes by a binding international court. by conducting its own investigation, the army appears to be preparing to counter any criticism. al jazeera, west jerusalem. the australian, r government, changing a century old law that lays down rules for how islam can be practiced in the country. from vienna, mohamed ado reports. >> the court center in vienna is at the front line of the

austrian government's war on terror. where members of the public can phone in to report any young person they think has been lured into illegal activities. it was published just days after police arrested 14 people suspected of recruiting young people to go and fight in the middle east. >> there is this rather new phenomenon of religious extra mission, and the government thought it would be good to have a first point of contact for all -- for the topic of extra mission. >> reporter: among the austrian government plans to overhauls its law on religion. >> translator: the islam law is the basis for an austrian or rather a european islam. the values of our state's legal

framework come. any religious values. >> reporter: standardized translation of the koran to be published in german. critics say history is trying to create its own version of islam. >> you may be able, at the end of the day to say this koranic verse is against european enlightenment or the austrian constitution, we want you muslims to say we don't believe in this verse, we don't believe in that verse. >> reporter: this islamic area actually look like a mosque. the rest are just prayer rooms. as the government continues, muslims say they are preparing themselves for even more restrictions. now rife within the muslim community, they say they're constantly profiled. >> it hurts.

i grew up here. i never hurt anyone. now we're getting judged and pigeonholed. people forget we are all people and we have to get along. i'm proud of u.s.a. tree. it hurts when you say we're not integrated. we shop we pay taxes it really hurts. >> a model in europe and did march to integrate muslims into austrian society. they'd rather the government didn't change it. mohamed ado, al jazeera, vienna, u.s.a. retail. u.s.aaustria. >> one of 256 cuban doctors and nurses to travel owest africa to help contain the outbreaks. people in the maldives will have to go without running water

for another week. the city's only desalination plant was damaged by fire. nicole johnson reports from ma mali. >> where to get it where to buy it and the big question when will it be available again? the army and police are handing out free bottles. 3 liters a day for everyone. >> we have to drive kilometers to collect it. it's very heavy. we live in very difficult times. >> every afternoon long lines form. some distribution points are open every day. still the city needs 13,000 tons of water every day and now has less than 10% of that. the real problem is not drinking water though, it's water for washing and cooking. people don't have enough to clean with and some are starting

to get frustrated. this is mali's desalination plant, it stopped working at the control panel caught fire. the parts have arrived to fix it but not the expertise. >> at least seven to ten days before we can have the machinery up and running and full resumption of normalcy i think is look to be probably minimum a week but probably it could be longer than that, as well. >> so many people, that's not good enough. >> bottled water every day. ten days, which is too long. and i think government should have contingency plans. >> but there is no backup plan just help that's been flown in. there's 40 tons of water on this military plain from india. it's also sent a ship with a desalination plant on board. china, the u.s. and sri lanka

have sent aid as well. looks like the country will have to put up with bottled water for a while longer. the island city is surrounded by the indian ocean but at home the taps run by. nicole johnson, al jazeera, mala, in the maldives. why certain scenes are not making the final cut at the film festival. and an emotional test match against india, all that and more on sports.

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six guantanamo bay detainees have arrived in you'r uruguay. have been held for more than a decade. typhoon hagupit is pelting the philippines with rain and winds of over 100 kilometers an hour. hundreds of thousands have moved into shelter. a professor in contemporary history of the middle east, joins me in the studio now. and hearing those reports, there are some local sunni officials accusing pro-iranian forces and also iranian forces that are working with the iraqi army of using the fight against i.s.i.l. to target sunnis to push them out of diela province. >> such reports of such evidence

will increase the level of tension between the main groups sunni and shia. this is not new. this is small detail in huge context of sectarianism, promoted by the political action he of the government and the political action of the players including iraq and iran, these kinds of reports these kinds of accusation or allegation from sunnies in iraq is not new because they knew that they had the major issue with the government in iraq and maliki, when maliki was prime minister and they had the same problem now with abadi is prime minist minister. based on sectarian actions. >> they have the same problem with haider al-abadi, but, they wanted it to be contingent on a political change and the expectation has been that haider al-abadi will at least try heal

the divisions in the country. that's not happening. >> there was high expectation from abadi to cool down the situation to cool the political tensions in iraq. the important in iran is the political actions. the political actions from the government did show that there is no serious well from the government to give sort of -- or showing goodwill to the people that they are serious -- >> what can they do on a practical level matthew, this is a government in crisis, this is a country struggling just to hold together because of the level of the security challenge, they're facing this -- you know. >> i think many things can be done. for example, thousands of sunni iraqis are in prison without going into the the courts. the government can do something for those people. the government can do something, there are a high percentage of

sunni iraqis, they can give them jobs, they can afford them jobs, they can solve the problems within some of the areas still within government control. there are huge sunni people in prison those people including women. that is sensitive oiraq the government can do something to show sort of you know that they are serious of fixing the situation in iraq. i think what we are seeing is actually ongoing failure for the government to deliver to its own people of course what you are saying is correct that the government is in crisis but this cannot you know forgive the government from doing anything. >> we have seen many shies leaving the nortshiesshias lees.

>> of course if this continues there will be more fragmentation, more hatred within the iraqi society and i think this will not lead to any kind of reconciliation any time in the future anyway. >> thank you for your analysis. thank you. >> argentinian experts say they have identified one of the bodies of the 43 missing students. alexander mora is only one to be identified. near a garbage dump last month. a lot of anger amongst the parents of these students that the deposit is simply not doing enough. >> absolutely. not only that, there are now 42 students they say that are still

not identified, and they say that they won't consider them as dead until -- that they have all been positively identified. this body by the way of alexander mora was given positive identification at the university of innsbruck, were so totally taish fied and burned, that it mate it positive for the argentine group making a positive identification. as far as they're concerned, the parents say their children are still alive and well. at the same time, they say if they are finally all identified or it's proven that they have been killed they say that they will not forget nor will they forgive. even if the bodies are found, this whole national movement of outrage about what the

government has done or haitian done to provide security for its citizens will more likely continue. >> and so therefore lucia, how do we find the levels of tension between the local communities and authorities in the area how is that likely to play out in the coming days and weeks? >> it's difficult to tell. but as i say, teachers organization he, student organizations, civilian groups from all walks of life are continuing to organize and to mobilize. this incident is one of many in this country over years of people being killed by organized crime, in league with police and by local -- and with local authorities. so people are saying that they're just not going to forget anymore. they're going to hold -- they're going to take their president to task. in fact there's a movement underway asking for the president to resign. in the meantime in about an hour and a half the attorney general is expected to give a news conference giving more details about the remains of the other

students, miriam. >> lucia newman in mexico city, thank you. hundreds of activists have taken their protests to the peach. they're pushing -- to the beach. limit to limit global greenhouse gas emissions. the preservation of the amazon rain forest is considered a top battle in the battle against global warming. from lima, crossed the andes, in amazonia. a hub for the logging industry. later he will go by boat through the amazon rain forest and right now nick clark joins us now in pakulpa. an incredible journey nick, tell

us about what you've seen in the past five days. >> well, miriam, right now you have joined us on the bank of the river. long way downstream, something about four days boat ride, something like that. this is a major trading hub. there's a tarmac road which goes across the andes mountains and goes directly into lima. but what we're focusing on, what we're most interested in, is the fact this is a timber hub, a hub of the timber trade. that is something the group will be focusing on. the trade here is in very small part legal but for the most part it is very, very illegal. illegal logging is so commonplace in the rain forest, he doesn't care about us filming

him doing what he does. stealing trees from forbidden areas with impunity. >> translator: it is illegal. we shouldn't really be doing this. the police make us do all this paperwork and you have to pay them off. they constantly put up obstacles. >> reporter: and this is where romalo's trees go. three hours boat ride away, the saw mills of the town of pokalpa. much of the wood ends up in the u.s. destined to become someone's hardwood floor or garden table. the trail here is a world of forged documents and faked inventories on a massive scale.

the wes the world bank estimates that eight out of ten of these trees are harvested illegally. one after the other, pukalpa's saw mirl mills stretch three kilometers along the river bank. cutting trees cut from illegal forest. authorities give out to transport and sell wood. >> they're all fictitious? >> yes, mostl mostly fictitious. >> the independent environmental investigation agency found that the forging of paperwork and corruption is endemic. >> nobody has the function for this. none of the people, and we vawl the names of the people that were involved in producing the fake inventories, in approving the fake inventories.

nobody has been investigated. >> reporter: illegal logging on this scale is very bad news for global warming. living trees suck up co2 to survive alleviating carbon emissions. but this has totally the opposite effect. here we are a little over an hour's flight from the climate change meeting in lima displp what can be done for the situation, nick? >> right here you can see for miles, the extent of the forest and forest work of timber just lying on the ground. what can be done? a lot of that timber is stolen from tribal lands, a lot of tribal leaders are fighting back, it's a dangerous game, edwin chota was murdered in september, fighting for right of the tribe to gain title to his

forest and he was murdered for doing so, along with threat other people. big embarrassment for the peruvian government. no news on the investigation itself. from an international point of view we've heard from norway and from germany. they've offered to assist the peruvian government, norway offering $47 million to the cause. but the corruption is so rife here from the very top, illegal loggers, to the police here in pukalpa all the way up to the high levels of government it's very hard to see how it's going to be possible to take this on with any ease. >> nick thanks very much, looking forward to seeing and hearing more of your journey, there, nick clark our environmental editor in

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us. the film first of all is underway showcasing from around the world. as rob mcbride explains not all movies are welcome. >> this is something when they first come to this country. >> this is the film that has caused offense. to singh with love is a documentary featuring leftists from the 1950s and 60s allegedly compiled from abroad. general release saying it gave an unbalanced view. >> they took the view that it was self serving and that inconvenient facts and all. >> director ken kwak is one that objected to the pan. preparing to open this year's film festival he's no stranger to the sensors. >> i'm indian. >> key scene removed for allegedly being racist.

>> i think the artists in singh tend tsingapore tend to be quite gutsy. >> celebrate the 50th anniversary of its independence, just the right moment to reexamine the city's past with complete openness. but the surge in patriotism that will accompany next year's celebrations may not be convenient. >> meant to encourage freedom of expression. but it is just as likely to be used for cultural events as anything political. eyironically, singapore has just provided a platform for other people's politics, displaying work that would cause offense back home. dealing with recent turbulent events. >> they have awitness this kind

of situation. they are the only one we can go outside the country to show and to make understand what happened. and there are other possibilities to express to say what usually people in the street cannot say. >> an unexpected message for singapore visitors to take away from them. >> time now for sport, andy. >> third in the english premier league, after 3-1 victory over swansea. look to climb off the bottom of the table there playing aston villa. >> a few weeks ago, gave as good as they got in our game. so what i'm pretty sure everybody knows, the league. it's really unforgiven.

>> christian reynaldo, showing him breaking the record of the most hat-tricks, coming against a 3-nil win. renaldo has goals, quick look at what renaldo, 23rd hat-trick taking him past his 200 spanish top flight goals, 9th now on the overall all time list. that is also a record quealg 18th straight win for real. >> they the result puts seven points clear at the top. the only goal in this 1-nil win. scoring just after halftime. champions league game on

wednesday. check identity some cricket action now, in sri lanka has beat gland in 6-1 wick et cetera. wickets. james taylor steps up for the career-best 90. timely return to form. he scored 62, and england for all out for 265 in exactly 50 overs. in reply sri lanka's batsman always in control. unbeaten from angelo matthews, that saw sri lanka home with just a couple of time to spell. michael clark should be fit to play since the death of phillip hughes. clark recovering well from a hamstring injury. 405 on their shirts and there will be 63 seconds of applause

at the start of play in recognition of hughes final unbeaten score. >> i think this has been probably as important four days lead up to a test match than i've ever been involved in because this is a lot of inner demons that we have had to sort our way through. but you know from the test perspective there's no doubt that once we get out there, in front of a great crowd and such a great crowd here in adelaide, everybody's competitive juices will be up and running. >> tiger woods isn't having quite the return to competitive action he would like to. he's still in last place and not just his golf game that's misfiring. as richard eckleston reports. >> no one can fault tiger woods, despite suffering flu like system, his best score so far. after his first tee shot he was looking visibly unwell and still

managed to birdie the opening hole. despite some dropped shots, woods fired three birdies to close for a 69. but still leaves the world number 24 bottom of the field where he'll be feeling better about his game. >> well, i wasn't doing too good at the beginning. but i thought i could just hang in there. if this fever just broke i thought i'd being al be all rig. and it finally broke on the front nine. >> despite shooting his best round of the tournament, jordan spieth the 21-year-old started with three straight birdies six more followed including this 15 meter putt on the 18th hole. >> job's not done yet this week but i'm a believer in my own momentum and i'm going to go out

tomorrow with very similar strategy to today. and if the putts go and the breaks go my way hopefully shoot a round like today. if not i'm still going to have to shoot under par to win this golf tournament. >> that leaves speith, going into the final round of the tournament his to lose. richard nicholson, al jazeera. asia source indonesia open many even par, 71 to win by two shots. and after recovering from a career threatening knee injury, sceeskier lindsay vonn, win comg at a week in lake louise,

canada. a shin fracture, two knee operations, but she is back to full fitness now. okay, that is how sports is looking for now. >> thanks very much, andy. now, the world's largest and oldest museum is celebrating its 250th anniversary. the hermitage in russia is hopee to the biggest collection of art in history. the light was put open in the main score in st. petersburg where the museum is located. with so many high profile artworks, the hermitage is the many target for thieves. >> start of the revolution is now home to the oldest and biggest museum in the world. the hermitage, the stately staty repository of russia's rich

cultural history, is a treasuretrophy of art captured around the world. founded by accuratar catherine . at times the interior is just as captivating as the art on display. the wealth and extravagance of the romanovs, the hermitage has now become a targets for art thieves. it's estimated that nearly $5 million of cultural works have vanished from the museum. some of the thefts were quite audacious, thieves got into the upper stories and when the caretaker was out of the room, cut this masterpiece out of its frame. it was so familiar to many people it was impossible to sell on and returned anonymously to the museum and that's unusual.

most stolen works of art are lost forever. today the painting is back on display after a painstaking restoration. >> it had severe damage and you could see it on the pictures next to the painting. it had been folded four times and the artist canvas and threads were severely damaged. the painting underwent a long restoration. the restorer basically had to sew the canvas thread by thread. >> meanwhile, the hermitage continues to expand from old to new. the display of digital art. the hermitage would love to op open, very unlikely peter sharp, al jazeera in st. petersburg. >> do stay with us on al jazeera, another full bulletin of news is straight ahead. i'll be back in a few moments'

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